Sheats Fishing Trip

Wallace, Jimmy, Gene and Mary and George Sr. on a fishing trip to Lochloosa, Florida, April 58

Hardy family

Photo taken after Christmas Dec 1957. I am a new bride of 4 months, now living in Ocean Springs, Mississippi near Biloxi. This was a great day to visit with the Sheats and Hardy Clan. This was the start of many get together with our two families..

Left to right > my sister Loretta, my mother June, my dad Ray, me Scarlett Sheats, and my little brother Leonard.

Sheats Siblings with their Parents

This photo taken after the Christmas Holidays 1957. Wallace and I had come for a short visit from Biloxi, Mississippi. Photo taken in front of the Sheats Home on Hwy 138.

Left to right : back row > Helen, Dorothy, Charlotte, George Jr., Wallace, Gene.
Sitting : left to right > Louise ( my mother -in-law ) and George Sr. ( my father-in-law )
Front > Jimmy ---- ( only one sibling missing , Jackie Jones )

George and Louise Sheats

Emma Inez George Family info

1883: Emma Inez George was born in Austin, Travis County, Texas. to parents : James Aaron George and Martha Gathright Tate Lyon George

1900 : Blue eyed Inez George graduated from an all girls High School. Inez lived with her parents on 309 Mangum Street, Atlanta, Georgia. Her dad, James Arron George owned and ran a grocery and fresh meat market on 382 Marietta Street, Atlanta, Georgia.
Inez took a job as secretery to Mr. Winship Nunnally, President of Nunnally Candy Company near the corner of Pryor and Edgewood Street, Atlanta, Georgia. She commuted daily by horse drawn streetcar..

1910 : Emma Inez George married Wallace Hawkins Johnson.

1910 : Inez parents lived at 64 Dill Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. Her Dad owned and ran a large grocery/meat market on McDaniel Street, Atlanta, Georgia.

Emma Inez George Johnson

This photo must have been taken around the early 1940's.

Emma Inez George Johnson

Inez with her sisters.. Inez is the second sister from the right.

Emma Inez Johnson

Wallace Hawkins Johnson and son's

left to right : Dan Hawkins Johnson, John Wallace Johnson, Wallace Hawkins Johnson and James Jack Johnson.

Father: Wallace Hawkins Johnson owned and ran a grocery store in Atlanta, GA and then moved to Tampa, Florida and owned and operated a Grocery Store. Then moved to Daytona Beach, Florida where he owned and operated a Guest Home. The snow birds of the north would come down to stay until spring and all chance of snow was gone..

Two son's ( Jack and Dan ) owned and operated their grocery store in Florida. Son, Wallace was in the Banking Business in Atlanta.

Wallace Hawkins Johnson : Lousia father

Louisa and her siblings

Clockwise: starting with Louisa, Jack, Dan and baby Wallace.


















This photo was taken on Stewart Ave, Atlanta, Georgia, home of Wallace and Inez Johnson and at this time three of their children : Jack, Baby Dan, and Louisa.. and their little puppy..

Louisa Tate Johnson

This little baby girl grew up to marry George M. Sheats .
She was a daughter, wife, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, great grandmother and great great grandmother..

George Merrill Sheats Sr.

Another pose of George M. Sheats Sr. when he was a young man. I think at one time water got on the original photo and there are smugges on the picture..

Mother of George Merrill Sheats Sr.

Opps, missed one picture .... well this gives me a chance to tell you about this wonderful lady.. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Owens Barrett was the second wife of Jacob Zolliecoffer Sheats.

Zol's first wife Sudie S. Gorden gave birth to 7 children in the span of 1886- 1896, with her first being twin girls. One baby girl died an infant death. Sudie herself died one year later in 1897 leaving 6 children between the ages of 2-12 without a mother..

Zol married "Lizzie" in Jan 9, 1898, and she took on the the job of mother to all 6 children. She then had two of her own. When her sister died givng birth to twin girls with mother and one twin dying, Lizzie took the other twin girl to raise as her own. I think she is quite a women. All of her children loved her dearly.

Short Story of : William Haralson Sheats

This is all of the pictures that I have of George Merrill Sheats parents and grandparents. I am sure that other siblings of his do have pictures but all have passed on and I am sure they were given to their children. I thank Charlotte for making me copies of the ones that I do have..

I do have a short story of "William Haralson Sheats" father of Jacob Zolliecoffer Sheats. William was born in Campbell County, his father Charles N. Sheats moved his family from the east side of Georga, to Campbell County, then in 1836 moved his family to Villa Rica, GA. The Sheats family is part of the first families to settle Villa Rica, GA.

William H. Sheats joined the Civil War and is listed as a 1st Sgt, deserving the "Crosses of Honor". He would have received this medal had he presented himself. Page 18, of the "The Villa Rica History Book" by Mary Talley Anderson.

Page 8, he is listed as an outstanding cotton Merchant.

Ellen Marie Owens ( age 16 )

This is the grandmother to George M. Sheats and Aubrey Z. Sheats.

She is a pretty young 16 year old born in England. She came to America when she was age 22.

Ship S.S. Cella

Ellen Marie Owens born around 1847, born in England married a James George Barrett in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales. She gave birth to two children, a girl Elizabeth "Lizzie " Barrett born in 1867 in Wales and a baby boy James "Llewellyn" Barrett born 1869.
She traveled to America with her two small children. They traveled on the ship "Cella" and Ellen is listed as age 22, her daughter, age 2 and her son age 3 months. Her husband traveled ahead of her and was waiting for her arrival in Atlanta, Georgia. He had set up a home for them in Ben Hill, Fulton Co., Georgia. The family is listed in the 1870 Census, Atlanta, Fulton Co., Georgia with James George Barrett head of the household age 26, from England and his wife Ellen age 22, daughter Eliz age 3 and son Llewellyn age 1 yr old. Ellen gave birth to another daughter, Agnes Ellen Barrett in 1872 in Ben Hill, Georgia. After this Ellen Marie Owens is no longer in the picture or heard of , so she either died giving birth to her third child or sometime throughout the 1870's. ( a mistake on the 1970 Census as listing Ellen, Elizabeth and Llewellyn as born in Georgia ).

Note: in the 1880 Census, James George Barrett is listed with his new wife Mary Susan Turner.

Home in England

This picture was taken in England.
Ellen Marie Owens Barrett holding her daughter "Lizzie".
Ellen Marie Owens Barrett is George M. Sheats Sr. grandmother.
Baby Lizzie is George M. Sheats mother.






Their home in England.

Parents of George Merrill Sheats

Jacob Zolliecoffer Sheats married his second wife : Elizabeth Owens Barnett. Zol was from Villa Rica but had moved to Ben Hill, GA. Lizzie was born in Wales, Cardiff, England. She came to this country when she was two years old. Together they had two children : Aubrey Z. Sheats and George M. Sheats


Zol and Lizzie in front of their barn with grandson Wallace Sheats.


Sitting on their front porch with their dog Bootsie.








Standing in from of Aunt Agnes home is Zol and Lizzie Sheats

George and his Brother Aubrey

Young George is in the all white and his brother Aubrey driving the goat driven homemade wagon.

George Merrill Sheats Sr.

They say that looks come from our family often skipping a generation. As you look at this photo you are seeing a young George Sheats Sr...... Well I can see my youngest son Jonathan in this photo.. Tell me what you think.. and maybe even memories of this relative..